Creating a running tally/ definitely new to this

[gratedmedia at gmail.com]

On Monday, August 5, 2013 10:15:30 PM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote:
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> > I currently working on a game, where I need to maintain a running tally of money, as the player makes purchases as they navigate thru game.   I not exactly sure how to do this in python.  I know it is a fairly basic step, nonetheless.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.  
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>    http://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython
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> So what have you written so far?  Is this a homework assignment and
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> There are so many ways of accomplishing this sort of thing, that without
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> in the class Player, you make a pair of methods, purchase() and
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> income(), which manipulate the instance attribute assets.   Then you
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> Class Player:
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>      def purchase(self, amount):
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>      def income(self, amount):
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>         self.assets += amount
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>      def wealth(self):
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> DaveA

This a project I am am working on.  I am using "Learn Python the Hard Way". To best explain. I'm working on a game with a similar format to John Dell's Dopewars, but on Python. SO I've created the several destinations to travel, but now maintaining the "running tally (money)" has been my issue. I'm going to take your advice and play with code you posted.  Please contact me with any more suggestions.